Get more control over your Orkut Community!

Orkut’s “Shiv-Sena Hate Community” fiasco ended up creating a lot of chaos and insecurity amongst many community owners on Orkut. In order to maintain a civil and cohesive overall experience, and encourage active and engaged community online, Orkut has now introduced more controls for community owners.

Orkut’s “Shiv-Sena Hate Community” fiasco ended up creating a lot of chaos and insecurity amongst many community owners on Orkut. In order to maintain a civil and cohesive overall experience, and encourage active and engaged community online, Orkut has now introduced more controls for community owners.

More controls:

Access to – only owner and moderators can create forum topics . This can be turned ON an OFF as desired from the “edit profile” page of your community.

Access to – only owner and moderators can create polls . This can also be turned ON an OFF as desired from the “edit profile” page of your community.

According to the Orkut blog:

When passions run high, you can now make use of this feature within your community. You can also try creating a few new forum topics like “Rant Room” or “Suggest new forum topics,” where community members can continue their discussions without affecting everyone else’s experience.